John Garey, MS

John Garey, MS, is the owner of two Pilates studios in California. He is a STOTT PILATES® certified instructor and holds a master’s degree in adult fitness.

Sessions Presented by John Garey, MS

Time Block A - Friday, 7:00-8:00am
Presented By John Garey, MS
Session Format: Workout
Learn to challenge and motivate your clients using innovative and simple jumpboard combinations, separated by intervals of upper and lower body strength and flexibility exercises. This ultimate cardio and strength interval class challenges your core and total body strength and elevates your heart rate while focusing on proper jumping technique.
Time Block E - Saturday, 7:00-8:00am
Presented By John Garey, MS
Session Format: Workout
This workout is the highest level of difficulty of the stability ball workouts, providing maximum challenge to strength, balance and stability by styling ball exercises on the intermediate reformer repertoire. Cues and corrections for safety and effectiveness are also covered.
Time Block G - Saturday, 10:30am-12:20pm
Presented By John Garey, MS
Session Format: Workshop
Learn to take your client’s game to the next level in this sports conditioning workshop. Improve strength, power and agility through new variations of familiar exercises that challenge unilateral movement and core stability. This workshop has a special focus on the core, arms, legs, shoulders and hips, as well as rotation. Learn a format on the reformer perfect for your sports enthusiast clients and athletes of all levels.
Time Block H - Saturday, 3:00-4:50pm
Presented By John Garey, MS
Session Format: Workshop
Take STOTT PILATES Essential Reformer exercises to a higher level of intensity and experience variety and a “stepped-up” pace. By increasing the speed and flow of the exercise sequences and modifying the existing repertoire to increase muscular and cardiovascular endurance, you will see how you can inspire clients who may not be ready for an intermediate reformer program. Prerequisite: STOTT PILATES Essential Reformer workshop AND previous experience teaching or studying Pilates reformer exercises.
Preconference - Thursday, 9:30am-5:30pm
Presented By John Garey, MS and PJ O’Clair
Session Format: Lecture / Workshop
This session is full
This all-day workshop offers a first look and comprehensive overview of STOTT PILATES’ latest creation, the new V2 Max Plus. Inspired by the demand for a highly versatile piece of Pilates equipment, this all-in-one system facilitates hundreds of exercises adding fun, challenge and variety to Pilates workouts. The session begins with a fundamental overview of the STOTT PILATES Five Basic Principles. Participants will learn countless essential- through advanced-level exercise combinations using the multiple V2 Max Plus components, work on matwork and Cadillac exercises using the mat converter, then move on to reformer and vertical frame-based repertoire ideas. We’ll share effective tips and tricks for cuing, modifying and correcting clients in group classes or private sessions. Ideal for seasoned Pilates instructors or for those who want to learn more about this popular mind-body fitness phenomenon. Limited to 30 registrants.
Preconference - Tuesday, 1:30-5:30pm
Presented By John Garey, MS
Session Format: Preconference
This Preconference is available for $209   Purchase
Explore how altering the angle of resistance can facilitate and expand your existing Reformer repertoire. In this workshop, participants will learn a series of Essential level exercises using the V2 Max Plus Reformer’s adjustable pulley system and extensor straps. You will see how the angle of resistance can be changed to help engage the appropriate muscles and achieve increased range of motion in tri-planar movements. This preconference workshop is ideal for instructors (and clients) of any fitness level.
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Time Block D - Wednesday, 3:00-4:50pm
Presented By John Garey, MS
Session Format: Workshop
Give your clients and classes something to jump about with this pumped-up session on the reformer. Increase intensity and challenge coordination and cardiovascular fitness using more complex jumpboard intervals while ensuring safety and proper technique. Incorporate strengthening exercises for upper and lower body and the core. This plyometric workout will deliver all-over fitness while easily motivating and maintaining interest.
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Time Block G - Thursday, 8:05-9:55am
Presented By John Garey, MS
Session Format: Workshop
This workshop is designed for instructors and trainers working with very fit and accomplished athletes. Using the STOTT PILATES V2 Max, an all-in-one machine that combines the functionality of the professional reformer with the key features and benefits of the Cadillac, you will experience the multitude of programming options this equipment allows. See how this complete-body workout retrains muscles that may have become unbalanced.
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Time Block M - Friday, 2:30-4:20pm
Presented By John Garey, MS
Session Format: Workshop
In this Level 2 workshop, you will learn how to add further challenge to the foam roller routine. Using the roller's unstable nature while reducing the base of support will increase the challenge to strength and balance. Cues and corrections for safety and effectiveness are also covered.
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Time Block A - Wednesday, 7:00-7:45am
Presented By John Garey, MS
Session Format: Workout
Build more challenge and diversity with this Level 4 Flex-Band(R) workshop. You will learn how to challenge core and peripheral strength with the resistance provided by the Flex-Band exerciser and increase exercise intensity in the areas of neuromuscular coordination, balance, strength and flexibility. Cues and corrections for safety and effectiveness are also covered.
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